Meditation One: Concerning Those Things That Can Be Called Into Doubt
So Descartes has given us a method to which we are supposed to read him. We have to read him critically and to follow his strict methodology for which he has laid out for us. He lays out the reasons for which we are to doubt and they are as follows:
1. Sense Perception: for intensive purposes our senses are not to be trusted. All information that they gather can be considered false and unreliable.
2. Madness although he says himself he is not a madman. The only way that you can deny that you exist and that you sit and read this blog as I have typed it would be to say that you are insane a human being.
3. Dreams: Descartes says that the imagery we see in our dreams comes from the reality we see when we are awake. This imagery is easily confused between the time he is awake and the time he is asleep.
4. Evil Deceiver: cannot be sure that God is not some kind of evil deceiver. He understands that God is good and cannot understand why God would want to deceive him.
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